Non-Contributory Pension Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards solidarity with sustainability
Date
2024
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Publisher
CEPAL
Abstract
The authors’ arguments
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Non
contributory pensions are an effective public policy
in reducing old age poverty and inequalities,
particularly gender inequalities
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Thus non
contributory pensions have an important place
within the pension system on their own merits
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They suggest that initially non
contributory pensions
should cover the poorest 40% of the elderly population